Improvement in inkstands



JOHN c. SPARK |nkstand.

PategJted Jan. 30,1872! A JOHN CHARLES SPARR, OF IRONDEQUOIT, ASSIGNORTO HIMSELE AND JULIUS SCHNEIDER, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN INKSTANDS.I

Specification describing a certain Improved Balanced Inkstand, inventedby JOHN C. SPARE, of Irondequoit, in the county of Monroe and State ofNew York.

Figure l represents a vertical longitudinal section of my improvedbalanced inkstand. Fig. 2 is a top View of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The invention will rst be fully described and then clearly pointed outin the claim.

A in the drawing represents the inkstand, of suitable form, held by pinsa a Within an embracing-rack, B, which has legs projecting up as Well asdown, as shown, so that it may be placed with either side up, the upperlegs in each case constituting the pen-rack. The inkstand swings on thepins a. a, and can revolve thereon. The neck b of the inkstand has adouble screw-thread formed on it. C is the cover of the ink-stand. It isbox-shaped and provided with a long slot in the bottom and round hole inthe top. When it is applied to the neck b and held thereon by thethreads, as shown, and confined between projectin g ribs d on theinkstand, it can slide back and forth, to a certain extent, in thedirection ofthe pins a.

When the inkstand, With its rack or Without it, is overturned at rightangles to its piv ots a, it will quickly right itself, being balanced tobe vertically suspended. When the iuksta-nd, With its rack, is turned inany other direction, the cover will slide down immediately and close themouth of the bottle. When the latter is'again in its normal position,the cover can be readily moved back to bring its circular aperture overthe mouth of the bottle.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent--` An ink-stand balanced on pivots, having the neck band provided with a sliding cover, C, as and for the purpose described.

JOHN CHARLES SPARR.

Witnesses:

DmmL Woon, WM. R. Woon.

